Please
join Oakland University in welcoming Doris Kearns Goodwin to
our campus Thursday October 28, 2004
at 6:30 pm in the Shotwell-Gustafson
Pavilion (campus
map).
Reserve your tickets today by phone at (248)
370-2400 or use the secure
online event form. Advance admission is $15 for
adults, $12.50 for OU faculty, staff and
Alumni Association members with a membership
card, $5 for students with a valid ID. Faculty,
staff, alumni and student rate tickets must be purchased in person at the
Center for Student Activities service window in the lower level of
the Oakland
Center. Regular admission is $20 per person at the door, if seats
are still available (but this lecture series
usually sells out in advance, so order your tickets now!). All seats are general
admission. Doors open at
5:30 p.m. Parking is free. For further information
please contact the College of Arts and Sciences
at by phone at (248) 370-2650 or check the CAS
web site.
Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Doris Kearns Goodwin has been a well-known
political commentator and national baseball expert
for more than two decades. A regular commentator
for NBC and the PBS
Jim Lehrer News Hour,
she has served as a consultant to PBS documentaries
on
Lyndon
B.
Johnson, the
Kennedy
family, Franklin Roosevelt and Ken Burns' History
of Baseball. Serving as an assistant to Lyndon
B. Johnson during the last year of his presidency,
Goodwin also worked with him on his memoirs.
She has authored numerous best-selling books
on American presidents including Lyndon Johnson
and the American Dream, The Fitzgeralds
and the Kennedys, and No Ordinary Time:
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, which was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Goodwin taught at Harvard
University as a professor of government for ten
years.
Books
by Ms. Goodwin at the Oakland University
Library
Articles by and interviews with Ms. Goodwin*:
Audio/Video of Ms. Goodwin:
Past Lecturers for the Distinguished Lecture in
the Humanities Series
*Please note, the materials
listed below are restricted to use by Oakland
Students,
Faculty, and Staff (or from a computer located
on the Oakland network). Find
out why... |